I Could Speak Until Tomorrow : Oriki, Women & the Past in a Yoruba Town / Karin Barber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barber, Karin, Author.

Series:

International African Library : IAL

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Yoruba culture oriki, or oral praise poetry, is a major part of both traditional performance and daily life, and as such reflects social change and structure both past and present. Karin Barber studies the oriki poetry of Okuku, a small town in the Oyo state of Nigeria. She shows how women, the main performers of the oriki, interpret the poems and examines the links it gives them between living and dead, human and spiritual, and present and past.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

MAPS, DIAGRAMS AND TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY

1 ANTHROPOLOGY, TEXT AND TOWN

2 THE INTERPRETATION OF ORIKI

3 ORIKI IN OKUKU

4 CONTEXTS OF PERFORMANCE

5 THE ORIKI OF ORIGIN

6 THE ORIKI OF BIG MEN

7 DISJUNCTION AND TRANSITION

APPENDIX

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-7486-9918-X